I promised myself I wouldn’t just take photos for this project, but would force myself to dust off my art supplies, and despite my total lack of confidence in my abilities, put the result on public display.

So here’s my first attempt, the product of a pleasant few minutes sitting in the garden. I’m not entirely happy with how it turned out (I seem to have lost any ability to control the weight of my pencil lines), but I’m treating it like one of those warm-up exercises you do when you’re writing, to get that part of your brain working again. If it’s just a practice one, then I don’t have to be embarrassed by it

Yayyy!!! Good weather at last!!! But just one picture for now.

Just to prove that I can take photos of something other than pretty flowers (and that we’re dreadful gardeners who forget to knock the old apples off the tree so they hang there until the wasps have completely hollowed them out):

Who knew dried up apple skin could make such nice stained glass?